Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 23 June 2022

Public Accounts Committee

2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities

9:30 am

Mr. David Kelly:

The teams in the Department would work with local authorities to encourage them to use it and support them in doing that. Under Housing for All, one of the key issues is building the capacity of local authorities and teams. Last year, the Minister approved an additional 250 staff for the local authority sector specifically for social housing delivery teams. The majority of those are technical resources so we are building the capacity of local authorities to design and deliver housing schemes. Most of those posts are engineers, architects and technicians. We are really working to build the capacity of local authority to develop schemes.

We are also enhancing the role of the Housing Agency to support both local authorities and approved housing bodies to develop and deliver schemes. That capacity building will support local authorities.

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